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[Snippet] Create a large file in Linux

Need to create a large file? For disk speed tests? Or space tests?

dd if=/dev/zero of=your.big.file bs=1MB count=500

This will create a 500Mb file in your current directory called  your.big.file

500+0 records in
500+0 records out
500000000 bytes (500 MB) copied, 4.08855 seconds, 122 MB/s

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